additional resources

Great Albany Fire of 1793 by Kayley Pilawa (download pdf HERE)

New York State Museum website for 1793 fire - http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/doc/fire1793.html

Albany Census of 1790

Slavery in New York by Ira Berlin and Leslie M. Harris. New York: The New York Press in conjunction with the New York Historical Society, 2005.

Black Arson in Albany, New York: November 1793 Author(s): Don R. Gerlach Source: Journal of Black Studies,Vol. 7, No. 3 (Mar., 1977), pp. 301-312, Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.

Regimentation of Blacks on the Urban Frontier in Colonial Albany, New York City and Philadelphia: Author(s): Oscar R. Williams Source: The Journal of Negro History,Vol. 63, No. 4 (Oct., 1978), pp. 329-338, Published by: Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc.